Abstract: Typescripts, manuscripts, galleys, artwork, letters, financial records, and personal material created and collected by writer
and artist Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) over the course of his long career.

creator:
Bruccoli, Matthew J., (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008

creator:
Longstreet, Ethel

creator:
Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-2002

creator:
Melchior, Lauritz

creator:
Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964

Related Archival Materials

Stephen Longstreet Papers (Collection 380). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University
of California, Los Angeles

Stephen Longstreet Collection, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library

The Stephen Longstreet papers consists of typescripts, manuscripts, galleys, correspondence, artwork, scrapbooks, financial
records, ephemera, and clippings, 1922-1995, created and collected by Stephen Longstreet. The collection documents Longstreet's
long and prolific career as a writer of fiction, non-fiction, plays, screenplays, and poetry, and as an artist. Typescripts
and manuscripts of most of Longstreet's written work can be found in the papers, as can either originals or reproductions
of a large percentage of Longstreet's artwork. Also included is some material created and collected by Longstreet's wife,
Ethel.

Conditions Governing Use

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Biographical note

Stephen Longstreet (1907-2002) was a prolific author and artist. Born Chauncey Weiner in New York in 1907, his family moved
to New Brunswick, New Jersey when he was a child. As a schoolboy, Longstreet changed his name from Chauncey to Henry, and
then again to Henri when he began his professional career as an artist in the early 1930s. The family name was originally
Wiener-Longstrasse, and Longstreet's first submitted manuscript (to Random House in 1940) was as Stephen Wiener-Longstrasse.
It was Bennett Cerf at Random House who suggested Longstreet drop the Wiener and anglicize the Longstrasse. Longstreet also
adopted and used the pen names Paul Haggard (circa 1938), Thomas Burton, David Ormsbee, Monte Redmond, W.W. Windstaff, and
Lucas Webb.

As Henri Wiener, Longstreet studied in Paris and at Rutgers and Harvard Universities; he graduated from the New York School
of Fine and Applied Art (Parsons) in 1929. On his return to the United States from Paris, his artistic style was considered
"too modern" to sell (he identified as a surrealist), and he thus pursued a career as a commercial and magazine artist and
cartoonist. His work was published in the
New Yorker,
Life,
Colliers, and the
Saturday Evening Post. Longstreet continued to produce art after turning to writing; in addition to creating illustrations for a number of his
own books, in particular his publications on jazz, Longstreet was also a prolific producer of collages and drawings.

In 1933 Longstreet began writing radio shows for John Barrymore, Bob Hope, and Rudy Vallee, thus launching his career as a
writer. He published over a hundred books, including the novels
Decade 1929-1939 (1940),
The Pedlocks (1951), and
The Flesh Peddlers (1962).

In addition to novels, Longstreet also wrote a number of scripts and plays. He was under contract at Warner Bros. in the 1940s
and penned "The Jolson Story" and "Stallion Road", based on his novel of the same name and starring Ronald Reagan. He also
wrote a screen adaptation of his novel
The Gay Sisters (1941) and the book for the musical "High Button Shoes", adapted from his semi-autobiographical novel,
The Sisters Liked Them Handsome.

Longstreet also wrote a number of non fiction books, many of them on one of his favorite topics, jazz. He was introduced to
jazz by Paul Robeson, whom he met in 1918 while Robeson was an undergraduate at Rutgers University.

Longstreet died in 2002.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Bruccoli, Matthew J., (Matthew Joseph), 1931-2008 -- Correspondence

Longstreet, Ethel -- Archives

Longstreet, Stephen, 1907-2002 -- Archives

Melchior, Lauritz -- Correspondence

Schildkraut, Joseph, 1895-1964 -- Correspondence

Actors--Pictorial works

Artists--California--Los Angeles--20th century--Archival resources

Authors, American--California--20th century--Archival resources

Autobiography--Jewish authors--20th century--Archival resources

Clippings

Collages (visual works)

Drawings

Ephemera

Galley proofs

Jazz musicians--United States--Archival resources

Jazz musicians--United States--Pictorial works

Jazz--Pictorial works

Jazz--United States--Archival resources

Letters

Manuscripts

Notes

Nude in art--Pictorial works

Scrapbooks

Screenwriters--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources

Typescripts

Watercolors (paintings)

World War, 1939-1945--Pictorial works

Writings

Scope and Content

The Writings series consists of manuscripts and typescripts of Longstreet's novels, stories, non-fiction works, screen- and
teleplays, poetry, and outlines/notes for novels and books. In addition to manuscripts, both original and photocopied typescripts
are included. Longstreet would often edit photocopies, make notes on them about publication status, and/or sign them.

Arrangement

The Writings series is arranged by genre.

Novels and stories

Scope and Content

Manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys for most of Longstreet's novels. Many include handmade (by Longstreet) covers, original
or photocopied illustrations, edits and annotations.

Box 1, Folder 1-3

All or Nothingundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript. Lightly edited in pencil and ink, some inserted pages, some pages carbon and some original.

Box 32

All or Nothing1983 June

General Physical Description note: Handbound first galleys. Book jacket pasted on cover.

Box 30

The Ambassadors1977

General Physical Description note: Handbound galley with cover and title page inscribed with title by Longstreet.

General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys. Title inscribed by Longstreet on cover and title page. Note on title page: "paper back edition only/Fawcett"
in Longstreet's hand.

Box 19, Folder 1-2

The Young Man [sic] of Parisundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 24

M.B. Longman, The Power of Blackundated

General Physical Description note: Handbound galleys, title inscribed by Longstreet on cover and first page.

Box 33, Folder 7

[Untitled memoir?]undated

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.

Box 42, Folder 11

[Novel notes and themes]undated

Scope and Content

Includes outlines and themes for June Wayne; The Bank; The Rivals; The Pedlocks in Love.

Box 42, Folder 12

[Outlines of literary projects]1970, 1976, undated

Scope and Content

Includes outlines for The Buffalo Pope; The City on Two Rivers; The General; Kipling, His True Life and Times; The Pleasures
of the Eye; Straw Boss. Each is annotated with a note by Longstreet as to publication status.

Box 26, Folder 8-9

[Unidentified edited typescript]undated

Box 26, Folder 10

[Unidentified typescript fragment]undated

Box 27, Folder 1, 2

[Unidentified typescript pagesundated

Box 27, Folder 3-5

[Unidentified incomplete typescript]undated

Box 28, Folder 1-2

[Unidentified novel--incomplete]undated

Box 29, Folder 1-3, Box 28, Folder 3-6

[Unidentified typescript]undated

Non-fiction

Scope and Content

Manuscripts, typescripts, and galleys for many of Longstreet's non-fiction works. Many include handmade (by Longstreet) covers,
original or photocopied illustrations, edits and annotations.

Box 40, Folder 6

Afterword for "Single Lady"undated

General Physical Description note: Photocopy and carbon.

Scope and Content

Afterword for John Monk Saunders' novel.

Box 35, Folder 7

All Done By Hand: The Drawings of Stephen Longstreet, 1935-1993circa 1993

Essay by Longstreet in Matthew Brady. Possibly for an unidentified book?

Box 36, Folder 4

The Bitter Wind

General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handwritten title page.

Scope and Content

Sketchbooks and text, 1929-1940.

Box 37, Folder 1

The Bitter Wind: Sketchbooks of the Years of the Great Depressionundated

General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handwritten title page.

Box 37, Folder 2

The Bitter Wind, 1929-1940

General Physical Description note: Photocopied typescript and illustrations with handwritten title page.

Box 20

The Boy in the Model-T1956

General Physical Description note: Uncorrected proof.

Box 3, Folder 7-9

The Buffalo Pope: Life and Times of Sitting Bullundated

General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript.

Box 4, Folder 1-3

The Buffalo Pope: Life and Times of Sitting Bullundated

General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript.

Box 4, Folder 4-5

The Buffalo Pope: Life and Times of Sitting Bullundated

General Physical Description note: Photocopy of a typescript.

Box 14, Folder 3-4

Sitting Bullundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 33, Folder 1-2

The Bulls in the China Shopundated

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.

Box 4, Folder 6, Box 5, Folder 1

The Canvas Falconsundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 26, Folder 2

Carbon parts of Canvas Falcons/Geishaundated

Box 47, Folder 1

Chicago, 1860-1919undated

General Physical Description note: Pasteup of Longstreet's illustrations for the book.

Box 5, Folder 2-3

City on Two Rivers: Life and Times of New Yorkundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 32, Box 20

City on Two Rivers1975

General Physical Description note: Copy 1: Galleys. Photocopied book jacket pasted to cover; note by Longstreet on first page indicating that this is the full
version of the book, before publisher's cuts. Copy 2: Handbound galleys with title inscribed by Longstreet on cover. Cover
also has a color photograph attached. Signed and dated by Longstreet on the title page with note "(uncut version) in proof
sheets only". Clippings inserted.

Box 39

City on Two Rivers: Profiles of New York--Yesterday and Today1975

General Physical Description note: Hardcover with dust jacket; illustrations and clippings tipped in by Longstreet.

Note by Longstreet on cover: "Jazz sheets including many texts not used in final book".

Box 46, Box 45

Storyville to Harlemundated

Scope and Content

2 copies of the published hardcover, with tipped in illustrations, both original and photocopied; many of the latter are hand
colored. The illustrations are Longstreet's own. "File Copy--prints" is written on the spine.

Box 46

Storyville to Harlemundated

Scope and Content

Hardcover book with hand colored illustrations. Also includes some tipped in illustrations.

Box 81

[From Storyville to Harlem and Jazz covers]undated

Box 44, Folder 2

Unused text and art not from original version/Storyville to Harlemundated

Box 43, Folder 10

Jazz copiesundated

Box 43, Folder 11-13

[Jazz dictionary]undated

General Physical Description note: Incomplete typescript.

Box 57

Jazz from A to Z1990

General Physical Description note: Paperback copy with tipped- and pasted-in drawings and photographs.

Box 44, Folder 1

Jazz Solos/Poems and Imagesundated

Box 71, Folder 2

Jazz Solosundated

General Physical Description note: Portfolio of poems and images; most of the images of photocopies that have been enhanced by Longstreet.

General Physical Description note: Galleys. Title inscribed on first page by Longstreet.

Box 43, Folder 4

The Vanishing Pointundated

General Physical Description note: Heavily edited typescript.

Box 17, Folder 5

Warcriesundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 31, Box 24

War Cries1969

General Physical Description note: Copy 1: First galleys. Signed by Longstreet on title page; inscribed with title on last page. Copy 2: Handbound final galleys.
Title inscribed by Longstreet on cover.

Note by Longstreet on original envelope: "as many of these are borrowed--do not mark them in any way--and return them after
use"/"not used".

Box 48, Folder 2

[Miscellaneous illustrated text pages]undated

Poems

Scope and Content

Typescripts and manuscripts of Longstreet's poetry.

Box 34, Folder 1

[Poems]undated

General Physical Description note: Manuscript. Originally housed in a portfolio, which is included in the folder.

Box 34, Folder 2-3

[Poems]undated

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.

Box 35, Folder 1

A New Poem by Kingsmill Johnsundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript carbon.

Scope and Content

"The New Emperor's New Clothes".

Box 35, Folder 2

Poemsundated

General Physical Description note: Manuscript.

Box 35, Folder 3

[Poems and illustrations]undated

General Physical Description note: Original typescripts and photocopies; many pages have pencilled notations. Illustrations are both original and photocopied.

Box 6, Folder 1-2

Dont Answer the Doorundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 35, Folder 6

Dont Answer the Doorundated

General Physical Description note: Typescript with edits in ink. Illustrated; many of the illustrations are photocopies.

Box 40, Folder 1

[Poems and images]undated

General Physical Description note: Original and photocopied typescripts; original and photocopied illustrations. Includes a Longstreet handmade cover for "Buy
Back Yesterday (Troubled Sleep)".

Box 40, Folder 2

Poems No. 3undated

General Physical Description note: Original typescripts and photocopies.

Box 48, Folder 1

[Poetry]undated

Scripts and screenplays

Box 40, Folder 8

The Beach Houseundated

General Physical Description note: Edited typescript. No cover.

Box 40, Folder 9

The Beach Houseundated

General Physical Description note: Photocopy with cover.

Box 42, Folder 7

Carrie Seabrook, the Doctor in Buckskinundated

Scope and Content

"An outline for a dramatic series by Marion Zola and Stephen Longstreet". Typescript.

Box 40, Folder 10

Company Comin'undated

General Physical Description note: Typescript.

Box 40, Folder 11

Copper Hill1947 November 4

General Physical Description note: Original typescript.

Box 40, Folder 12, 13

The Crimeundated

General Physical Description note: Copy 1: Photocopy; signed by Longstreet on title page; no cover. Copy 2: Photocopy with cover.

Box 41, Folder 1

The Fabulous Rookieundated

Box 41, Folder 2

The Girlscirca 1960

Scope and Content

Note by Longstreet on first page: "NBC series announced--never produced".

Box 42, Folder 8

High Button Shoes1979

Scope and Content

Treatment for 1979 reworking of Longstreet, Cahn, and Styne's original musical. Note by Longstreet on title page: "never produced--producers
produced no money".

Box 41, Folder 3

The Ivory Floorundated

Scope and Content

By Stephen Longstreet and Ethel Godoff.

Box 41, Folder 4

Joe Monte Christocirca 1955

Scope and Content

Note by Longstreet on title page: "For the author Joseph Schilkraut [sic]--announced for production as a TV series--but never
produced".

Box 41, Folder 5

Man of Montmartrecirca 1959

Scope and Content

Note by Longstreet on title page: "bought by Monogram Studios/never put into production".

Box 41, Folder 6

Nell Kimball: A Memoir with Musicundated

Box 41, Folder 7

Snow Devilundated

Box 41, Folder 8

The Snow Devilundated

Scope and Content

Signed by Longstreet on first page with note: "Mr. Hall never got this film into production".

Box 42, Folder 1, 2, 3, 4

Venus Touched Meundated

General Physical Description note: Four copies; copies 1 and 2 have identical title pages; copy 3 has simplified title page; copy 4 has commercial cover.

Box 43, Folder 5

Wahela Looks Backcirca 1950

Separated Materials note

Note by Longstreet on title page: "An idea by Val Burton for a musical--he could get no composer or lyric written".

Box 42, Folder 5

The Young Man from Boston1965 July 21

Scope and Content

Television script for a documentary on John F. Kennedy. Inscribed by Longstreet on first page: "Script & research by Stephen
Longstreet".

Box 47, Folder 18

The Young Man from Boston

General Physical Description note: Spiral bound brochure.

Scope and Content

Publicity brochure for the KABC program. Note by Longstreet on the cover identifies him as the writer.

Essays and columns

Scope and Content

Clippings.

Box 34, Folder 5

"Books of the Week" and miscellaneous clippingsundated

Box 34, Folder 6

"Books and Writers",
Quote magazine
1975-1978

Box 34, Folder 7

[Magazine articles by Longstreet]1964-1967

Box 34, Folder 8-9

"Among the Publishers",
Canyon Crier1970-1975

Book art

Scope and Content

Material gathered or created by Longstreet to be used as illustrations for unidentified books; see also individual titles.
This series also includes Longstreet book jackets and flyers for books.

Box 48, Folder 3

[Book illustrations]undated

General Physical Description note: Clippings and photographs, many with Longstreet's captions.

Scope and Content

For books on Hollywood and New York?

Box 48, Folder 7

Book covers and jacketsundated

Box 48, Folder 11

[Ads and flyers for books by Longstreet]1964-1976

Box 72

[Handmade book cover for unidentified book]undated

Works by other authors

Box 47, Folder 3-4

Robert Eringer, Parallel Truthscirca 1995

Scope and Content

Accompanied by a note to Longstreet from the author.

Art1922-1990

Scope and Content

Originals and reproductions in the form of photocopies of Longstreet's artwork. Includes drawings, watercolors, and 2- and
3-dimensional collages. This series also includes material on Longstreet as an art collector. Longstreet was a prolific documenter
of his own work, creating "portolios" of drawings out of photocopies as well as producing photocopies of his work in general.
Many of these photocopies were reworked by Longstreet; he would draw over photocopies, add watercolor to them, paste new sections
over parts of them, and/or sign them.

Notebooks, sketchbooks, portfolios1951-1987, undated

Box 78

Collection of reproductions and phone doodles by the artistundated

General Physical Description note: A repurposed book filled with photographs of Longstreet works of art and exhibitions; photocopies of works; and original drawings
and watercolors.

Box 80

Etcundated

General Physical Description note: Portfolio of general drawings, both originals and photocopies.

Box 80

Famous headsundated

General Physical Description note: Portfolio of portraits, both originals and photocopies.

Box 69

[General drawings]undated

General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.

General Physical Description note: Portfolio type notebooks with Longstreet drawings, both original and photocopies. Many of the photocopies have been drawn
or colored over.

Photocopy portfolios1981-1987

Scope and Content

Handmade portfolios/folders of photocopies of Longstreet's drawings. Almost all are signed and numbered on the "copyright"
page. Most of the photocopied drawings are enhanced with additional ink or watercolors.

General Physical Description note: Two oversize coffee table books in which Longstreet pasted, on every page, photographs of his work, exhibition announcements,
photocopies of drawings, and original works. The original contents of each book are entirely covered. Each book was given
a new cover by Longstreet.

Box 75, Box 76

Scrapbooksundated

General Physical Description note: Scrapbooks with photographs of Longstreet's work, exhibition announcements, and some original drawings and watercolors.

Box 101, Box 115-117, Box 102-113, Item 1-3

Collages

Drawings and watercolors1924-1984

Scope and Content

Includes a 1924 and 1930 drawing with "Paul Haggard" inscribed on the reverse.

Box 72, Folder 1, Box 71, Folder 3

[Miscellaneous drawings]1926, 1938, undated

Scope and Content

Loose drawings, some matted, both originals and enhanced photocopies. Subjects include jazz, artists and writers, New York,
nudes, Japan, and a self portrait.

Box 81

[Photographs of jazz watercolors]undated

Box 102-113, Box 101, Box 99

[Drawings]1924-1980s

Scope and Content

Original black and white drawings on paper.

Box 102-113, Box 115-117, Box 101, Box 100

[Watercolors and pen and ink drawings]1930s-1980s

Box 101

Prints1973

Scope and Content

"Lawyers, Progress, and Our Law Courts" 8 Original Lithographs by Stephen Longstreet".

Box 98, Box 82

"Enhanced" photocopies

Scope and Content

Longstreet would often create multiple photocopies of his drawings and watercolors. Almost all were "enhanced" in some way,
either with a signature, additional pasted on elements, watercolor enhancements, or inscriptions.

Illustrations

Box 48, Folder 10

[Longstreet as illustrator]undated

Scope and Content

Flyer and postcard with illustrations by Longstreet.

Box 51, Folder 3

[Magazine cover art by Longstreet]circa 1930s

Box 81

["Quote" cover]1975 May 14

Box 81

[Jazz postcards with Longstreet illustrations]undated

Box 81

[Poster for the 6th International Traditional Jazz Festival Breda]1976

Box 81, Box 102-113

Paintings1922, undated

Longstreet art collections

Box 50, Folder 6

[Longstreet art collections]1955, 1964

Box 71, Folder 1

[Daumier's Master Prints of the Theatre; Daumier's Sideshow of Politics and Politicians; Lawyers and Law Courts]1967, 1972, 1973

Scope and Content

Portfolios issues by Kistler Company from the collection of Stephen Longstreet; commentary by Longstreet.

Letters to Longstreet regarding teaching activities from Los Angeles State College and USC; class lists; and handwritten notes,
presumably for teaching purposes. See also University of Southern California folder in Correspondence and letters series.

Press

Scope and Content

Reviews of Longstreet's work, both writings and art; clippings about Longstreet; notices of exhibitions and lectures.

[New York Times clipping and Hirshfeld illustration for High Button Shoes]

Box 81

[Poster for "The Gay Sisters"]undated

Scope and Content

Signed by Longstreet.

Box 49, Folder 1, Box 77

Press clippingsundated

Box 48, Folder 14

Press & etc.1976-1986, undated

Box 48, Folder 12, Box 72, Folder 5

[Reviews--clippings]1964-1976

Box 49, Folder 2

[Stephen Longstreet interviews]undated

General Physical Description note: Transcripts.

Box 53, Box 54

Financial records1962-1972, 1974-1981, 1985-1987, 1990, 1995

Scope and Content

Records documenting income and expenses. Also includes household bills and the Longstreets' checking account records.

Ethel Longstreet papers

Scope and Content

Course material gathered by Ethel Longstreet for her course on linguistics taught at USC; these include many student papers.
Also included is a daily diary with notes on a variety of different subjects, and copies of correspondence sent by lawyer
Leonard Horwin to various state and federal offices and newspapers on the topic of US relations with Israel.

Box 55, Folder 1

[Ethel Longstreet (?) notebook]circa 1980

Scope and Content

1980 Desk Diary used, presumably by Ethel Longstreet, as a notebook. It contains notes on a variety of topics, including art,
politics, literature, and philosophy.

Box 55, Folder 2

[Linguistics course]1984

Scope and Content

Syllabus and photocopied readings for Ethel Longstreet's LING 100: Language and Mind course, taught at USC School of Cinema
and Television.

Box 56, Folder 1-2, Box 55, Folder 3-5

[Student papers--Linguistics]1984, 1985, 1989

Box 56, Folder 3-6

[Leonard Horwin letters]1989

Scope and Content

Photocopies of letters sent by attorney Leonard Horwin to politicians and media outlets regarding American-Israeli politics.

Box 114

"Your Dream-My Dream"undated

Scope and Content

Ethel Longstreet appearances. Host: "SRG".

Personal

Scope and Content

Family photographs, cards and letters; clippings and catalogs on art history; ephemera from trips taken by the Longstreets.

Box 72

[Art catalogs]

Scope and Content

Catalogs on various European art and artists.

Box 51, Folder 1

[Art clippings]undated

Scope and Content

Possibly source material for book illustrations.

Box 49, Folder 4

Comic strip artundated

Box 50, Folder 9, Box 51, Folder 2

[Ephemera]undated

Box 50, Folder 8

[Family]undated

Scope and Content

Letters, cards, ephemera from family members.

Box 72, Folder 2

[Italian art book]undated

Scope and Content

Pages torn from a book on Italian art.

Box 81

[Lorser Feitelson signed exhibit poster]1972

Box 81

[New York School of Fine and Applied Art diploma]1929 June

General Physical Description note: Longstreet pasted his signature over his calligraphed name.

Box 50, Folder 7, Box 72, Folder 6

[Photographs]undated

Scope and Content

Photographs of Longstreet; Longstreet's family; Longstreet artwork; and book illustrations.